Charlie Blackmon homered among his two hits, Brendan Rodgers also went deep and the Colorado Rockies cooled off the streaking San Diego Padres with a 7-3 win in Denver on Friday night.
Rookie Jordan Beck had three hits to back starter Cal Quantrill’s solid start and end Colorado’s three-game losing streak.
Ha-Seong Kim and Xander Bogaerts homered and Jackson Merrill, Luis Arraez and David Peralta contributed two hits each for San Diego. The Padres are 19-5 in the second half of the season and three of those losses are to the two teams with the worst records in the NL – the Marlins and Rockies.
San Diego loaded the bases with no outs in the first inning, but Quantrill worked out of the jam without giving up a run. Meanwhile, Colorado took advantage of its opportunity in the bottom of the inning.
Blackmon led off with a walk, Ezequiel Tovar singled and, after a forceout, Ryan McMahon drove in a run with a single.
Rodgers then hit a 77-mph knuckleball from Padres starter Matt Waldron into the seats in left to give the Rockies a 4-0 lead. It was his 10th homer of the season.
The Padres got a pair back in the second on Kim’s two-run homer, his 11th of the season, but Blackmon answered with his eighth home run in the bottom of the inning, a two-run shot to right.
Bogaerts led off the fourth with his sixth homer of the season to cut San Diego’s deficit to 6-3.
That was all Quantrill (8-8) allowed, as he gave up three runs on six hits and struck out five in five innings.
The Padres had a chance to get closer when Merrill tripled with one out in the sixth, but Kim grounded into a double play to end the inning.
Colorado added another run in the sixth when Michael Toglia doubled, moved to third on a groundout and scored on Beck’s third hit of the game.
That was all for Waldron (7-10), who allowed seven runs on nine hits and struck out six in 5 2/3 innings.
–Field Level Media
